Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Edward Babbittis an American politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Babbitt served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 through 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 June 1938
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
abandon choice correct forests fuel instead loads manage
We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,
gone acres forests
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
chapter creation grand history major public staircase
The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands,
gone process
This process has gone from distasteful to obscene,
thinking breathing rivers
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
president important statistics
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
enemy oblivion
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
eight years shapes
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
mirrors facts wilderness
It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
country thinking people
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
thinking land president
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
gods-creation needs harmony
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
mistake thinking land
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
people born century
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.